Fan of Facebook? Advertising nightmare coming in summer.

[Janthran]

that'll target women over 30, women under 30, men over 30, and men under 30

Oh, so everyone but dragqueens and transexuals?

 

[DinohScene]

Oh, so everyone but dragqueens and transexuals?

What are you implying?

 

[Janthran]

What are you implying?

Nothing. I'm just an intolerant bastard.

 

[DinohScene]

Nothing. I'm just an intolerant bastard.

You sure are.
Don't worry Jan, I still like you c:

 

[JoostinOnline]

I'm changing my age to 30.

 

[Costello]

Pretty sure this is going to drastically increase the amount of people using AdBlock (I can already imagine people sharing status updates about how new Facebook ads are too annoying and telling everyone to start using AdBlock)

Which means all ads will be blocked by default on a lot more computers all over the world.
This implies small websites like us will suffer, what with the income dropping and all.
If GBAtemp was actually a company, it would be terrible (thankfully, it isn't )

 

[Bladexdsl]

the company is reportedly planning four 15-second autoplay video ads that'll target women over 30, women under 30, men over 30, and men under 30

so pretty much expect a shitload of online dating ads

 

[Arm73]

Pretty sure this is going to drastically increase the amount of people using AdBlock (I can already imagine people sharing status updates about how new Facebook ads are too annoying and telling everyone to start using AdBlock)

Which means all ads will be blocked by default on a lot more computers all over the world.
This implies small websites like us will suffer, what with the income dropping and all.
If GBAtemp was actually a company, it would be terrible (thankfully, it isn't )

I'm also sure those guys behind FB are pretty efficient ( besides questionable choices the team made over the years ) and will figure out a way around it.
I'm sure they are aware of adblock and such, maybe they really will make it so that if you block the ads you won't be able to see your regular pictures or posts.

Besides not everyone hates ads ( I know it sounds silly ) , but a couple of years ago I installed firefox adblock plus on my brother's girlfriend computer, and she was like whatever.
Then she had to open up a page with IE and her homepage came up with all the ads and she said it looked nicer !!
Go figure it out......some people just don't care.
The rest of us ....we'll just keep being smart....

Besides, it just occurred to me that up until a year or two ago, I was constantly adding elements to hide on most new pages, but it seems adblock ( i subscribed to one easylist of filters ) is gotten a lot smarter and really does most of the work for me, I can't remember when it was the last time I right clicked on an ad to hide it.

 

[Rydian]

I don't mind ads that are unobtrusive. I disable adblock on gbatemp, filetrip, and other sites that don't use annoyance tactics (invisible single-click self-destructing overlays can bite me), and many adblock plugins added an opt-out whitelist for non-obtrusive advertising like Google's ads and junk.

 

[Jamstruth]

I'm 30 years old, that means I get no ads right? Right?

Only for a split second at the instant you were born. Past that you are technically over 30. ENJOY!

 

[DiabloStorm]

Pretty sure this is going to drastically increase the amount of people using AdBlock (I can already imagine people sharing status updates about how new Facebook ads are too annoying and telling everyone to start using AdBlock)

Which means all ads will be blocked by default on a lot more computers all over the world.
This implies small websites like us will suffer, what with the income dropping and all.
If GBAtemp was actually a company, it would be terrible (thankfully, it isn't )

Still a no go on donations? *nudge nudge*

 

[chartube12]

Ad blocking is going to become semi-useless in a few years anyways. It is how facebook makes money. There are more than enough mainstream websites with ads people use on a daily basis for adblock to eventually be legally killed in a few years.

 

[FAST6191]

Ad blocking is going to become semi-useless in a few years anyways. It is how facebook makes money. There are more than enough mainstream websites with ads people use on a daily basis for adblock to eventually be legally killed in a few years.

People have been killing and working around ads for decades now and the plenty of cases on the matter as it pertains to TV (the response has invariably been- TV company shit happens). Similarly there is unlikely to be a true technological measure to work around it and even if it somehow became "illegal" then it would just be like it is now with video codecs in places backwards enough to have software patents, failing that the "what is your hacking tool is my security tool" concept comes back into play (if you are on firefox click on tools -> options -> content and next to the "load images automatically" option there is an exceptions which could double as a crude adblock).

 

[Attila13]

I'm using AdBlock. Never had problems with annoying ads!

 

[Rizsparky]

Auto playing adverts have the opposite affect on people, they learn to hate the product because it gets in the damn way!

 

[Pleng]

Auto playing adverts have the opposite affect on people, they learn to hate the product because it gets in the damn way!

Well you'd think so but clearly this in unfortunately not the case... if these adverts didn't *work* then there'd be nobody paying to put them there and therefore they would cease to exist. But they're still here... which goes to show that they do work. Unfortunately.

 

[Rizsparky]

Well you'd think so but clearly this in unfortunately not the case... if these adverts didn't *work* then there'd be nobody paying to put them there and therefore they would cease to exist. But they're still here... which goes to show that they do work. Unfortunately.

They certainly don't work for me

 

[MegaBassBX]

I use Adblock already so no fear here

 

[Katsumi San]

Hmm facebook is look like is not really private no more.. I never use such saito. I only use the chisana aoi no tori saito :-) little blue bird...

 

[AlanJohn]

Goddamnit that greedy jew Zuckerberg is already a trillionare, why does he want even more money?